Sclerenchyma

Definition:

  • (n.) Vegetable tissue composed of short cells with thickened or hardened walls, as in nutshells and the gritty parts of a pear. See Sclerotic.
  • (n.) The hard calcareous deposit in the tissues of Anthozoa, constituting the stony corals.

Compare sclerenchyma with other words:

sclerenchyma vs. sclerenchyme

merenchyma vs. sclerenchyma

coral vs. sclerenchyma

sclerenchyma vs. stony

anthozoa vs. sclerenchyma

sclerenchyma vs. tissue

deposit vs. sclerenchyma

calcareous vs. sclerenchyma

cell vs. sclerenchyma

sclerenchyma vs. sclerenchymatous

collenchyma vs. sclerenchyma

parenchyma vs. sclerenchyma